Crimson Flame Tribe

The Primordial World.

The Crimson Flame Tribe, in the southwest of the Primordial Continent.

Within a gigantic mountain formed from a dead volcano, countless caves densely covered its slopes.

Luo Qing was inside a small, three-zhang cave at the foot of the mountain. At that moment, the aura around him fluctuated erratically.

At a certain moment, a tremendous suction force suddenly surged from Luo Qing, madly drawing in the essence of Heaven and Earth.

The massive essence gathered above the cave, forming a several-hundred-meter-wide vortex.

Once everything returned to normal, Luo Qing opened his eyes inside the cave and immediately burst into laughter.

"I, Luo Qing, have cultivated for a hundred years and finally become an immortal! Hahaha!"

Just then, a burly man with red hair and a crimson face flew over from nearby and began scolding Luo Qing, loudly berating him.

"Laughing? You cultivated for a hundred years just to reach adulthood, and you still have the nerve to laugh? The descendants born thirty years after you were already adults ten years ago!"

"It's all because you insisted on cultivating that lousy Immortal Dao technique! You refused to practice the perfectly good Gods and Demons cultivation technique and instead cultivated some technique of unknown origin."

Faced with the red-faced man's angry reprimands, which came from a desire to see him succeed, Luo Qing was already accustomed to them and did not get angry.

He merely wore a fawning smile, looking thoroughly obsequious.

"Captain, you said that once I reached adulthood through cultivation, you'd lend me your Blazing Flame Blade for a year of study. I wonder if you still intend to keep your word?"

"I do, I do! Having a brat like you around, I, Huoshi, really must have suffered terrible bad luck!"

The red-faced Huoshi rolled his eyes at Luo Qing.

With a casual gesture, he conjured a two-meter-long crimson blade wreathed in flames and tossed it to Luo Qing, who was standing at the cave entrance.

Luo Qing immediately thanked him cheerfully. "Thank you, Captain!"

"Luo, you've only just reached adulthood. You still need to stabilize your cultivation, so don't waste all your energy studying treasures."

Before leaving, Huoshi still felt uneasy and earnestly advised Luo Qing.

"Don't worry, Captain Huoshi. I know what I'm doing."

"If you knew what you were doing, it wouldn't have taken you a hundred years to reach adulthood!"

After he had gone some distance away, Huoshi was still muttering to himself.

A look of regret flashed in his eyes. A hundred years ago, Luo Qing had been one of the most outstanding newborns in the Crimson Flame Tribe.

Unfortunately, everything had been ruined by a cultivation technique of unknown origin from the Immortal Dao. This had always been a source of pain for Huoshi.

After seeing Captain Huoshi off, Luo Qing finally let out a sigh of relief and resealed the cave entrance.

Luo Qing had originally been nothing more than an ordinary young man on Earth, muddling through life until he reached thirty.

On the day before his birthday, he had added another achievement to a cement mixer truck's record.

Then he was reborn in this Primordial World.

The Crimson Flame Tribe was one of the Five Elements Great Tribe, established by a group of Innate Fire Spirit Deities.

But as time passed, by the time Luo Qing was born, the Five Elements Great Tribe—including the Crimson Flame Tribe—had all become Acquired Beings.

When Luo Qing was born, he already possessed the cultivation of Refining Essence into Qi.

Moreover, because he retained the memories of his previous life, he had earned the reputation of a "genius" in the Crimson Flame Tribe while still young.

At the age of twenty, he had even reached the stage of Refining Void and Merging with the Dao, becoming someone just one step away from the God Realm.

That same year, at a trade gathering of the Five Elements Tribe, Luo Qing suddenly discovered an Immortal Dao method that differed from the way of Gods and Demons.

Despite Captain Huoshi's objections, Luo Qing ultimately switched to cultivating the Immortal Dao.

Together with several other reasons, this resulted in him taking a hundred years of cultivation to become an Earth Immortal and Earth God.

Yes, in the Five Elements Tribe, only those who reached the level of an Earth Immortal or Earth God were recognized as adult clan members.

Everyone else, whether a ten-year-old child or an old man nearly a thousand years old,

was considered a minor as long as they lacked God Realm cultivation. They had no right to leave the tribal lands and travel outside alone.

Starting today, Luo Qing could finally be considered an adult.

Sitting cross-legged on the meditation cushion once more, Luo Qing's eyes radiated Azure Light as he carefully scanned his body from head to toe.

Streams of information immediately appeared in Luo Qing's consciousness.

"Analyzing..."

"Analysis One complete!"

"Earth Immortal cultivation. Body simultaneously cultivating the way of Gods and Demons and the Immortal Dao. Essence, Qi, and Spirit are all perfected."

"Analysis Two beginning..."

Stop!

The Azure Light in Luo Qing's eyes faded.

These eyes were one of the benefits he had gained from transmigrating.

They could analyze the essence of everything.

Luo Qing had temporarily named them the Eye of the Great Dao.

However, the more complicated something was, and the deeper one investigated into its essence, the longer the analysis took.

Something like analyzing his body, cultivation, and condition could be completed at a glance.

But analyzing deeper into the second layer took dozens of times longer.

The key was that Analysis Two was not the end. There were still Analysis Three, Analysis Four...

The time required increased geometrically. More importantly, while using the Eye of the Great Dao, he could not cultivate at the same time.

That was quite a waste of time.

Previously, he had used the Eye of the Great Dao to study the simultaneous cultivation of the Gods and Demons cultivation technique and the Immortal Dao technique.

That was why it had taken him eighty years.

Half that time had been wasted using the Eye of the Great Dao to study his own body.

After all, although the way of Gods and Demons and the Immortal Dao were not completely incompatible, fully harmonizing them while cultivating both was extremely difficult.

Luo Qing was not one of the so-called Innate Sacred Beings of the Primordial World, nor was he a top-tier Innate God.

He was merely one ordinary Acquired Divine Descendant among the countless beings of the Primordial World—an Acquired Divine Descendant separated by who knew how many generations from an ancestral Innate God.

Without any innate advantage, he could only seize every opportunity to strengthen himself.

At a time when the way of Gods and Demons was flourishing and the Immortal Dao had only just appeared as a mere sprout,

Luo Qing had to seize this opportunity to take the lead.

Based on the information he had learned from Captain Huoshi, along with the data he had gathered on the entire Five Elements Great Tribe,

Luo Qing reached a conclusion: the Five Elements Great Tribe's primary enemy was currently the Fierce Beasts.

In short, they were called "Fierce Beasts."

The two sides had been fighting across the land spanning hundreds of thousands of li for tens of thousands of years.

Luo Qing's parents in this life, who had possessed Heavenly God cultivation, had died in a conflict between the Crimson Flame Tribe and the Fierce Beasts.

From this, Luo Qing judged that the Primordial World was currently in the early or middle stages before the Fierce Beast Calamity, or perhaps the calamity had not officially begun yet.

After all, ever since the creation of the world and the birth of living beings, the Divine Race—represented by the Innate Gods—had been in constant conflict with the Fierce Beasts.

The two sides were sworn enemies, making it difficult to say exactly when the Fierce Beast Calamity had begun.

Looking at how the five Crimson Flame Tribes could still suppress the nearby Fierce Beast groups,

Luo Qing felt that the Fierce Beast Calamity had not yet reached its middle or later stages.

Otherwise, the fighting would certainly be far more intense than it was now. How could the tribe still possess its current peaceful appearance?

But Luo Qing still had to prepare for a rainy day. At the very least, he had to possess the power to protect himself when the Fierce Beast Calamity reached its most intense stage.

Cultivation was one aspect, but weapons and treasures could not be underestimated either.

As for Innate Spiritual Treasures, he could forget about them for now. They were not something an Earth Immortal like Luo Qing could hope to glimpse.

But slightly inferior Innate Treasures were still something Luo Qing could study first.

With the analytical ability of the Eye of the Great Dao, it would be a waste of a heaven-sent opportunity if Luo Qing did not choose a secondary profession.

Alchemy? Talisman Arts? Formation Arrays?

Unfortunately, all of these were too advanced for the current Primordial World. The Primordial World was still utterly desolate.

If you did not understand these things from birth, there was no point forcing it.

That left Artifact Refining, which was the only option that suited Luo Qing's wishes.

The Eye of the Great Dao radiated Azure Light as it looked toward the Blazing Flame Blade.

[Blazing Flame Blade]

Quality: Mid-grade Innate Treasure

Description: A defective Spiritual Treasure whose gestation from the Origin of the Great Dao of Fire failed. It possesses a faint fire law and can help people comprehend the laws of flame.

This was only the most superficial layer that Luo Qing had already analyzed before.

What he sought now was not this simple introduction.

"Analysis Two: in-depth analysis underway..."

"Analysis Two: in-depth analysis underway..."